My stepson (9 yr old) and I fish almost every night after work. He uses nightcrawlers and geta lot of panfish, I fish Senkos, worms, flukes and other soft plastics and cathc bass usually one punders a few days I caught some up to 3-4lbs. There is this kid we see fishing I tell my stepson he should talk to him (teh 11 yr old), the kids in our neighborhood are lets just say not who I want my kid to be around. He talked to this kid and we seen him on 3 other occasions. Well now they are friends and he started fishin with us. Ok so the story 6-6-06 we go out fishing. They are catching bluegille and other lil fish. This kid is keeping some of them in bait bucket. He then puts one on a hook and we are watching this about 5lbs bass eat the fish but he couldn't hook him. So the both start fishing for panfish. I am fishing for bass with the usual stuff with no luck and then fianlly I caught this

My stepson holds the fish I take pics  ;D

Then the kid puts a fish on again and pulls out this

Im like wow ok I want that. I use a Senko bait and nothing. My stepson now wants to use a fish as well. I rig it up and he pulls out a bluegile the size of my hand he wants to use this. Well 5 minutes he pulls this out.

So not fair. How can we catch these without using bluegilles? I want to try and get both of them to use artificial but you try telling a kid to use fake stuff and cath lil ones when he can have fun cathing the panfish and then have more fun catching monsters. So yeas I am jealous lol.

matlures bluegill swimbait

Matlures? Guess I will have to look into them

i'll have to agree with FCC on this one....i'm wanting to get a MattLure also.

bass love them bluegill...i caught a 7lbr on a live bluegill last summer.

Alfred

WOW! amazing... before you go can do this on a regular bases, check your local regs.  I know here in NY that is illegal.  But the look on the kids face is priceless... I know rapala makes a good looking bluegill bait.  Where are you from?

Florida: the use of blue gills as bait is legal as long as you caught the blue gill by legal method: hook, line, and bait.

You gotta go with Mattlures.   His Bluegill is perfection!

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Good thing the three of you weren't having a little tournament  

The one kid is a local we met I helped him with a few baits he was using I don't know how he expected to catch. He listened and he caught 2 that night. Now we fish with him all the time a good kid. My stepson loves fishing. I usually reel in my first bass and he gets to reel in anything after that. We have a lot of fun. But now the fishing is slowing down a lot.

Lol yea good thing no tournament was goin on lol

I love the 2 different facial expressions on your stepsons face.He knows when he caught a good one and looks like he could care less about your fish.Did you make him stop fishing to hold your fish? LOL

Kids are so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute eh?  >

I bet YOUR son is loving life!  He's so blessed to have a father like you.

how is he rigging up the bluegill? id like to try this

That's one happy kid!

I love the 2 different facial expressions on your stepsons face.He knows when he caught a good one and looks like he could care less about your fish.Did you make him stop fishing to hold your fish? LOL

LOL actually he got excited when I hooked it and he wanted to reel it in so he did. I never stop him for pics Ill throw the fish back b4 a pic but he gets all excited and askin a million times as I am takin the hook out can we take a pic of this one. So I give him eht fish and I take the pic  

I bet YOUR son is loving life! He's so blessed to have a father like you.

Thanks fo rhte kind words. I am still learnin this father/stepfather role. I went from partying every single night and not caring about much just working to pay for alcohol, place to live and my ccar. I drank every single night and did what I wanted when I wanted. Didn't want a gf, I didn't care what girl I hurt in the process. Then I met my gf, stopped drinking, sold my mustang and got a fuel efficient car that she drives and got me a beater, then her son moved in and a few months later she was pregnant. But I would not trade this in for a anything...

how is he rigging up the bluegill? id like to try this

Lips, doral fin and anal fin.

That was a real nice fish!  Time to start stock piling the blue gills!